First of all, I can’t post to dl6 discussion group. So please fix that.
Secondly, if we are expected to go get an external installation of a database software, it would be nice to know about it, give links, etc.
Ben.
Try to post now, the Deadline 6 forum was set to Read Only for the whole Deadline Beta Testers group… I hope I fixed it.
I also see that the instructions are in the help file already.
I’ll make a note in the download post that the mongo installation instructions are included in the documentation.
We will be looking at the possibility of bundling monodb with the repository installer later in the beta.
Cheers,
- Ryan
I would like to hear feedback on that - how best for us to include it…?
Experienced sysadmin / power users will prefer to install/configure MongoDB themselves.
Other users will need their hand holding for at least the first time.
Bundling the installer is nice but to cover all the bases, all the possible variations will need to be covered in the installer options/customisations.
Possible with the bitWise, but worth it…?
We find MongoDB very easy to install, but we would love to get feedback from others how they find the install procedure.
At the very least, we should include basic installation instructions for MongoDB in our documentation (ie: download binaries, create data/db folder, run mongod), but then still link to the MongoDB docs for more in depth instructions.
On first attempt to install as a service, having never used mongodb before, it failed. I’ll let you know when i get it running.
I agree that it is pretty easy to install, but as someone who will never edit it or want to develop it, I would have appreciated a checkbox in the repository installation somewhere that would install and setup mongo with defaults and be done with it.
Good to hear - I want the install experience for D6 to be as easy [or easier] than 5.x…keep the suggestions coming!
cb
I was a bit concerned about getting Mongo up and running (not being familiar with databases) and having to use the command line but it has to be said it was easy, just following the instructions on their website.
I would have prefered if the Repository installer did it for me, and installed it/set it up in the same Thinkbox folder so to keep it all together. Having the two folders on the root of C: (I no this can be anywhere, just brock it when tried!) they are more likely to be deleted by my studpi IT dudes.
Anyway, its working as a service, seemingly perfectly so far.
Mark
Beta 2’s repository installers will have the option to install MongoDB. It won’t install it to the same folder as the repository (you don’t want to share your database). On windows, it will install to C:\mongo, and on Linux, it will install to /opt/mongo.
Cool, yes point taken about sharing the database!
Agreed. I do not have any DB setup experience and it took a while to go thru the documentation to make sure I would not fowl up the setup. It seems like it could look for mongoDB, ask you if you have it installed already and if no, set it up perhaps by default on the license server or repository server. I found that I had to use an IP address even though the setup program listed machine names. Our server’s name is Peabody and I tried \peabody, //Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.teague.local and a variety of other combinations. IP was the only one that worked for some reason. For installing mongoDB on a win64 server, I found I had to manually create directories and run dos commands. That should be scripted.